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Iyad ibn Nizar

إياد بن نزار

Eldest of Nizar's sons and his father's kunya-name — allotted the grey-haired slave-girl's likeness, and the brother who read the camel's one eye from its grazed patch 1.

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Iyad is one of the four great tribes that branched from the sons of Nizar ibn Ma'add ibn Adnan: Iyad, Anmar, Rabi'a and Mudar. 2 3

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The Sealed Nectar does not go beyond counting Iyad among the sons of Nizar. It says that Rabi'a and Mudar are the two whose branches multiplied. 2 The accounts of Iyad in al-Mas'udi are in the data of this entry.

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Iyad is a tribe descended from Nizar, the brother of Mudar and Rabi'a.

Sources

  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 431-432
  2. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, p.20
  3. Muhadarat Tarikh al-Umam al-Islamiyya — Muhammad al-Khudari, 1/14-15
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islam.museum contributors. “Iyad ibn Nizar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/iyad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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